FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 record photo, a floating dock sits connected the lakebed of the Suesca lagoon, successful Suesca, Colombia. The lagoon, a fashionable tourer destination adjacent Bogota that has nary tributaries and depends connected rainfall runoff, has radically decreased its h2o aboveground owed to years of terrible droughts successful the country and the deforestation and erosion of its surroundings. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021 record photo, a floating dock sits connected the lakebed of the Suesca lagoon, successful Suesca, Colombia. The lagoon, a fashionable tourer destination adjacent Bogota that has nary tributaries and depends connected rainfall runoff, has radically decreased its h2o aboveground owed to years of terrible droughts successful the country and the deforestation and erosion of its surroundings. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

GENEVA – The U.N.-appointed Intergovernmental Panel connected Climate Change published a caller study Monday summarizing the latest authoritative technological accusation astir planetary warming. Here are 5 important takeaways.

BLAMING HUMANS

The study says astir each of the warming that has occurred since pre-industrial times was caused by the merchandise of heat-trapping gases specified arsenic c dioxide and methane. Much of that is the effect of humans burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, wood and earthy gas.

Scientists accidental that lone a fraction of the somesthesia emergence recorded since the 19th period tin person travel from earthy forces.

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PARIS GOALS

Almost each countries person signed up to the 2015 Paris clime accord that aims to bounds planetary warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) — and ideally nary much than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) — by the twelvemonth 2100, compared to the precocious 19th century.

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The report's 200-plus authors looked astatine 5 scenarios and concluded that each volition spot the satellite transverse the 1.5-degree threshold successful the 2030s — sooner than successful erstwhile predictions. Three of those scenarios volition besides spot temperatures emergence 2 degrees Celsius supra the pre-industrial average.

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DIRE CONSEQUENCES

The 3,000-plus-page study concludes that crystal melt and oversea level emergence are already accelerating. Wild upwind events — from storms to vigor waves — are besides expected to worsen and go much frequent.

Because further warming is “locked in" owed to the greenhouse gases humans person already released into the atmosphere. That means adjacent if emissions are drastically cut, immoderate changes volition beryllium “irreversible" for centuries, the study said.

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SOME HOPE

While galore of the report’s predictions overgarment a grim representation of humans' interaction connected the satellite and the consequences that volition person going forward, the IPCC besides recovered that alleged tipping points, similar catastrophic crystal expanse collapses and the abrupt slowdown of water currents, are “low likelihood,” though they cannot beryllium ruled out.

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THE IPCC

The sheet is composed of autarkic experts enactment guardant by governments and organizations to supply the champion imaginable technological statement connected clime change.

Scores of scientists supply regular reports connected a scope of aspects of planetary warming that governments gully connected erstwhile discussing what countries tin lend to curb greenhouse state emissions and accommodate to the impacts of clime change.

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Read much of AP's clime sum astatine http://www.apnews.com/Climate

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